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Play time / Janus Films ; Les Films de Mon Oncle, Jérôme Deschamps, Macha Makeieff présentent un film de Jacques Tati ; une production Specta, Bernard Maurice ; scénario original de Jacques Tati ; avec la collaboration artistique de Jacques Lagrange.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1650D | Criterion CollectionCC1995DDVD | Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 112.Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2006Edition: Special edition, version restauréeDescription: 2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1559409983
  • 9781559409988
  • 9781604654066
  • 1604654066
Other title:
  • Playtime
Uniform titles:
  • Playtime (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1. The film -- disc 2. The supplements.
Production credits:
  • Dialogue anglais de Art Buchwald ; directeur de la photographie, Jean Badal, Andréas Winding ; production manager, Michel Chauvin ; costumes, Jacques Cottin ; sound director, Jacques Maumont ; editor, Camille Laurenti ; music, Francis Lemarque and James Campbell ; DVD producer, Johanna Schiller ; restored version production, Vivendi Universal.
Cast: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maïden, France Rumilly, France Delahalle, Valérie Camille, Erika Dentzler, Nicole Ray, Yvette Ducreux, Nathalie Jem, Jacqueline Lecomte, Oliva Poli, Alice Field, Sophie Wennek, Evy Cavallaro, Laure Paillette, Colette Proust, Luce Bonifassy, Ketty France, Eliane Firmin-Didot, Billy Kearns, Tony Andal, Yves Barsacq, André Fouché, Georges Montant, Georges Faye, John Abbey, Reinhart Kolldehoff, Michel Francini, Grégoire Katz, Jack Gauthier, Henri Piccoli, Léon Doyen, François Viaur, Douglas Read, Bob Harley, Jacques Chauveau, Gilbert Reeb, Marc Monjou, Billy Bourbon.Summary: Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Amidst the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD WORLD PLAY TIM Available 33111006639641
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Arriving nearly a decade after Mon Oncle, Playtime continues the adventures of M. Hulot. More than a decade seems to have passed since its predecessor, however. The colorful Paris of Mon Oncle, last seen being slowly chipped away by progress, has now vanished almost entirely. Playtime takes as its setting an ultra-modern Paris where familiar landmarks appear only as fleeting reflections in the new buildings of glass and steel. Alternating between Hulot and a group of American tourists, Tati exploits the chaos just below the overly ordered surface of this brave new world. Again moving from one nearly wordless episode to another, Tati sends his alter ego off to make an appointment in a whirring, featureless office complex. He subsequently moves on to an exhibition of new inventions, meets an old friend at an aquarium-like apartment, wreaks havoc in a snooty new restaurant, and, again, almost falls in love. The most ambitious and technically complex of the Hulot films, it proved unprofitable and helped usher in the financial difficulties that would plague Tati late in life before later getting the recognition it enjoys today. ~ Keith Phipps, Rovi

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation enhanced for 16:9 widescreen televisions; Dolby digital stereo.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967.

Soundtrack in French, with optional English subtitles.

Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maïden, France Rumilly, France Delahalle, Valérie Camille, Erika Dentzler, Nicole Ray, Yvette Ducreux, Nathalie Jem, Jacqueline Lecomte, Oliva Poli, Alice Field, Sophie Wennek, Evy Cavallaro, Laure Paillette, Colette Proust, Luce Bonifassy, Ketty France, Eliane Firmin-Didot, Billy Kearns, Tony Andal, Yves Barsacq, André Fouché, Georges Montant, Georges Faye, John Abbey, Reinhart Kolldehoff, Michel Francini, Grégoire Katz, Jack Gauthier, Henri Piccoli, Léon Doyen, François Viaur, Douglas Read, Bob Harley, Jacques Chauveau, Gilbert Reeb, Marc Monjou, Billy Bourbon.

Dialogue anglais de Art Buchwald ; directeur de la photographie, Jean Badal, Andréas Winding ; production manager, Michel Chauvin ; costumes, Jacques Cottin ; sound director, Jacques Maumont ; editor, Camille Laurenti ; music, Francis Lemarque and James Campbell ; DVD producer, Johanna Schiller ; restored version production, Vivendi Universal.

Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Amidst the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.

Special features include: Disc 1. Video introduction by Terry Jones; Selected scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp; Alternate international soundtrack. Disc 2. Au-delà de "Playtime", a short documentary with behind-the-scenes footage; "Tati story" a short biographical film about Tati; "Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's work," a 1976 BBC Omnibus program featuring Tati; "Tati at the San Francisco film festival" audio interview with Tati; Video interview with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot; "Cours du soir" a 1967 short film written by and starring Tati. Booklet: "The dance of playtime" by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Disc 1. The film -- disc 2. The supplements.

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